The Stone the Builders Rejected--April 13, 2022

[From April 16, 2014 archive]

 

The builders rejected the stone, 

and the gates sank to the ground, 

and the bars lay ruined and broken, 

and the prophets saw no vision of you. 

 

But you do not want to cause us pain; 

out of your abundant love for us, 

you healed the brokenhearted, 

bound up their wounds. 

 

And as for the stone 

that the builders rejected, 

you made it chief cornerstone. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51

Lam. 2:1-9

2 Cor. 1:23-2:11

Mark 12:1-11

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 147:3 

[The LORD] heals the brokenhearted, 
          and binds up their wounds. 

 

Lam. 2:9 

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; guidance is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the LORD. 

 

2 Cor. 2:4 

For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. 

 

Mark 12:10-11 

“…Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is amazing in our eyes?’”  [Jesus, to the chief priests, scribes, and elders]